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New Jersey prosecutor said in a statement that the new information that
led to her arrest arose out of a cold case review of the boy's unsolved
1991 disappearance.

'Following
a routine, cold case review of the evidence and facts surrounding the
disappearance and murder of Timothy Wiltsey, a new investigation was
conducted and the matter was presented to the grand jury,' Middlesex
County Prosecutor Andrew C. Carey said in a statement released Thursday.

The
grand jury charged that Lodzinski “did purposely or knowingly kill
Timothy Wiltsey, or did purposely or knowingly inflict serious bodily
injury upon Timothy Wiltsey, resulting in his death…,' according to
Carey.

Sabol
said that Port St. Lucie police have been assisting New Jersey
prosecutors on the case since at least 2012 - sitting in on witness
interviews, executing search warrants and navigating the local court
system, but declined to divulge further details.

Lodzinski,
who lives with two other sons, 12 and 16, in Port St. Lucie, 'hadn't
been on our radar until a couple years ago, when we were contacted by
New Jersey [prosecutors],' Sabol said.

'I checked our [St. Lucie County] jail records and we are not coming up with anything for her in this county,' he said.

Her
bail was set at $2million though and it is not yet clear whether she
will waive an extradition hearing and return to New Jersey.

Fellow employees at a civil litigation firm where Lodzinski works were 'stunned' to learn of her arrest.

'The shocking thing is that her two sons are just these amazing, lovely children. She was a proud, doting mom to them,' the source said, adding that the two boys had occasionally visited their mother at work. 'Who would have ever known...' the source said, before going silent for a moment. 'Unbelievable.'

'We
had no knowledge of any of this,' the source told MailOnline on
Thursday morning. 'She came to work every day, but we had really no
knowledge of any other - certainly of this particular incident - but in
any other incidents that she was involved in.'

Police arrested Michelle Lodzinski at an address in Jensen Beach, Florida, following a routine review of the cold case involving the death of her son

A grand jury in Middlesex County has indicted Michelle Lodzinski on a first-degree murder charge

The colleague said Lodzinski never made mention of her missing son, or her 1995 guilty plea after claiming the previous year that she herself was abducted by FBI agents.

Lodzinski also pled guilty in 1998 to stealing a former employer's computer.

'She does have two kids, I know, in Port St. Lucie,' the colleague said, but Lodzinski divulged very little at work about her personal life.

Kori Searcy, spokeswoman for the law firm, said Lodzinski has long been a member of the Stuart, Florida legal community, and has worked for at least three other area law firms since the mid-1990s.

Retired New Jersey judge Alan A. Rockoff, who was Middlesex County Prosecutor in 1991, said the disappearance was a heartbreaking unsolved case that has been 'bugging' him for years.

'It’s gratifying to know that you’re suspicions were warranted in cases like this,' he said on Thursday. 'You grow a tough skin in law enforcement work, and I’ve been doing it for a lot of years, not only as prosecutor but a criminal judge.

'But when you have a young child with a face like Timmy Wiltsey,' he said, sighing deeply, 'you can never forget it.'

Rockoff said that despite suspicions, investigators could not nail down sufficient evidence for an arrest back in 1991.

'There were several factors that more than satisfied us that we were looking at the right suspect,' Rockoff said. 'Her inconsistencies [in her story], some of the actual observations that were made [by investigators], some of her associations and the fact that some of the associates wouldn’t talk to us – all made us confident we were moving in the right direction.'

'Acknowledging the presumption of innocence and the state’s burden to prove beyond reasonable doubt, it’s a step in the right direction. I’m pleased that this case wasn’t put in a back shelf to gather dust.'

He declined to speculate on what evidence may have prompted Lodzinski’s arrest.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office at (732) 745-2957 or leave an email at middlesexcoldcases@co.middlesex.nj.us